ON COVER GAMESA ELECTRIC, A WORLD-LEADING PROVIDER OF INDUSTRIAL ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT Gamesa Electric is a world-leading provider of industrial electrical equipment (both the design and manufacture) for markets including photovoltaic, hydroelectric, electrical traction and marine propulsion, in addition to wind power, the core business of its parent company, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy. The company has accumulated 35 years of expertise in the development of their own power electronics technologies, coupled with over 85 years of experience manufacturing electric motors and generators. Gamesa Electric provides integral and flexible solutions for electrical systems, which include state-of-the-art manufacturing systems based on lean manufacturing, thus producing electrical systems fulfilling the needs of customers throughout the world. As part of the larger Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, Gamesa Electric harnesses the technological, operational and financial advantages within the Corporation, including its network of maintenance services over five continents. This structure allows respond to the needs of its customers in the various sectors with flexibility and with optimal solutions. Gamesa Electric has its headquarters in Zamudio, Spain, and 7 production centers (3 in Spain, 2 in China and 2 in India). All its factories are ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 certified. All the power electronics solutions described herein are designed and manufactured in the new facility that Gamesa Electric has opened in Madrid (Spain). Gamesa Electric and the Solar PV market The company began operating in the photovoltaic sector in 1993, when the first 450 kW central photovoltaic inverter was designed and manufactured. The same year, the company rose to the technological forefront through the launch of Europe’s first photovoltaic inverter using 100 kW-capacity IGBT technology, which still remains in operation today. Building on more than 25 years of experience in the sector, Gamesa Electric’s central inverters utilize proven designs and state-of-the-art technology needed to meet or exceed even the most stringent grid-connection codes under the most demanding environmental conditions. Gamesa Electric experience ensures the highest levels of quality, reliability and performance regardless of the photovoltaic 22 energética XXI · 175 · ABR18
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